The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-03-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various SOureSS
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL


SECRETARY WHITNEY makes state
ment showing that the Government has
done no clandestine work in procuring
naval designs, having bought after ad-
Vertising.
A BODY of ministers met at New York
on the 18th, with Rev. Mr.. Talmage at
their head, and passed resolutions on
Henry Ward Beecher's death, as an Offset
to the orthodox action at Chicago
INDIGNATION over the alleged reprehen-
sible course pursued by Mr.. Randall in
the management of the appropriations
bills in the Forty-ninth Congress does not
seem to die out.
d. LYNCH PRINGLR, Of South Carolina,
has been transferred from the position OF
Consul-General and secretary of the lega-
ton at Guatemala to that of Consul-Gen-
eral at COnstantin ople.
THE clerks Of the House Of Representa-
tives have just completed comparison of
the bills pocketed by President Cleveland
at the recent session Of Congress with the
number of bills which have failed in other
years in similar way This time no less
than forty different bills and resolutions
died by the pocket veto, as against pre-
Yious maximum total of eight
On the 18th the will of the late Henry
Ward Beecher was offered for probate in
the surrogate's Office in Brooklyn. Cita-
lions were issued returnable April IL
On the 18th John B. Luce, brother Of
Rear-Admiral Luce, died in Washington Of
general debility and exhaustion, superin-
duced by his long struggle in advocacy Of
the celebrated Choctaw claim.
ZBNAs N. CRANE, of Dalton, Mass, one
of the best-known paper manufacturers
in Western Massachusetts, dropped dead
on the 18th.
JAMES G. BLAINE, JR., has severed his
connection with the Pittsburgh pa
Tins, and has accepted position with a
prominent Wall street firm in New York.
On the 18th Hon. John e. New was re-
ported to have been stricken with paraly-
sis, but Later reports proved the story to
have been the result Of mistake or mag
dnation.
OK the 18th Mrs. Mary p. Pelton, sister
of the late Samuel j. Tildeu, died in New
York. Reports indicate that she and her
sisters have been very shabbily treated
by the executors Of the dead statesman.
THB mortal remains Of the late Henry
Greenwood cemetery on the 18th.
Ok the 18th EX-Speaker Carlisle was
banqueted by the Bay State Club in Bos-
ton. Admiring Massachusetts Demo
Gratis claim that the ex-Speaker bears q
striking resemblance to the next Demo
cratic candidate for Vice-Presdent
OK the i4th the remains of the late Cen
eral William King Loring, who died in
New York on December last were disin-
TERED and removed to Jacksonville, Fla,
where they will be finally inferred in the
new cemetery at that place with grand
ceremony
BURNETT TIFFANY, son of the famous
New York jeweler, who recently married
Bertha Pearson, Of the Nation nal Opera
Company, has, at the instigation of his
relatives, deserted his bride and left for
Europe
In the Nova Scotia Legislature, on the
18th, a sensation was created by Mr.. Nc
Coll, member for PictOn, boldly announc-
ing himself as a secessionlst and annexa-
Zionist.
THE religious ratification of the mar
riage ceremony between Christine Nilsson
and Count Miranda, took place at the
Madeline, Paris, on the 18th.
PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR, son Of the
Prince of Wales, has been sent to Gibral
tar on duty with the Sixtieth Rifles, in
order to restrain his too apparent ten
dency to fast living In England. The heil
presumptive must be taught moderation.
DURING his recent visit to Berlin, NJ
de Lesseps has been made quite lion of
He had long conference with Prince Bis
marck on the 18th.
COMMANDER CHADWICK, naval attache o.
the American legation in London, now Ell
route to this country, is said to bear witt
him several designs by foreign ship build
ers for the new 6,00O-ton vessels to b.
added to our navy.
IT is said that Edward Unger, who muir
dered August Bohle at New York and Gu
him up, is going insane from the constan
torture of dreaming of his victim.
WASHINGTON gossips say that Ministe
Manning is soon to send in his resignation
as Minister to Mexico, and that Secretary
OF Legation Connery is to succeed him.
In Washington paper Samuel Wilker
son tells the story over again Of how h
paid Henry Ward Beechsr $4,000 for
Life of Christ, which was never written
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN is seriously, blu
not dangerously, i'll at Monte Carlo, iron
che effects of earthquake shock prostra
Gon.
THE remains Of the late Captain Jane
b. Eads arrived at Jacksonville, Fla, OF
the 14th.
FRANK MoREY, alias Williams, who wa
lost to his relatives over thirty years an
found recently, is now claimed by prom
ine MT Kentuckian as an adopted child.
UNITED STATES SENATOR SHERMAN an
other distinguished American excursion
lists arrived at Havana on the 18th
NINE. TARGET died at Montreal, on tn
14th, of injuries received by the burstin
of bombshell at the storming Of the iot
castle during the carnival
Hon. EBEN F. PnLsBURY died at his res
denoe at Melrose, Mass, on the night o
the 18th. He had been in poor health foi
some time.
MAyRoYENI BEV, the newly accredited
Minister Of Turkey to the Unite States
was formally presented 70 the President
on the lfth, by Secretary Bayard.
HoN. w. P. BoCoCK, twice Attorney
General Of Sirg MA, aId a member of tn
constitutional convention of 1850. died OF
the "A n in App0ma.tox County, Va, aged